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...bipartisan move began when Minority Leader Rayburn strode down the aisle. The 372 members present stopped their chattering as respected Sam Rayburn turned to the House...
...evangelist strode out onto the platform in dignified, double-breasted blue serge to speak his message. With him stood an interpreter, 27-year-old Wilfred Sybell, a German student at Chicago's Moody Bible Institute, who not only rendered Graham's tense message into German, phrase by phrase, but matched every Graham step and gesture. He pounded the Bible when Billy pounded, pointed to heaven when Billy pointed...
...Other Colonel. In Guatemala City, that day, another colonel strode tight-lipped along the underground tunnel that leads from the executive mansion via an elevator to the presidential office on the second floor of the city's avocado-green National Palace. President Jacobo Arbenz, the stubborn, enigmatic career soldier who had started the trouble in the first place by flinging wide the palace doors and welcoming Communists into his government, had plenty to think about. But he may have taken a moment to recall that Castillo Armas had once been a school mate, a fellow graduate of the country...
...Assembly decisively rejected Laniel's attempt as too easy an out. The burly Premier, a dead cigar jutting from his impassive face, strode off the Assembly floor, took his Cabinet with him for a meeting with President Reneè Coty...
Into the Indian Treaty Room of the Executive Office Building last week strode a pipe-smoking, professorial man to face a group of some 40 Washington correspondents. "My name is Burns, Arthur F.," said he briskly. "First of all, I'd like to request that some kind soul among you, after 30 or 40 minutes, declare in peremptory tones that this meeting has gone on long enough...